Our Chairman and CIO, Ronald Duncan, has been shortlisted for Entrepreneur of the Year, at the Grant Thornton Quoted Company Awards. The nomination is in recognition of his significant contribution to the innovation, development and growth of the company over the past 12 months.

@UK PLC is pleased to announce that it has been awarded to supply services on the framework agreement G-cloud 4 framework. This is the fourth consecutive successful round of the framework that @UK has been placed on. We have extended the list of products available on the fourth generation of the government framework and again has been placed on all four lots (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Specialist Cloud Services).

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dale Stephens as CEO of our Asia Pacific operations. Dale will oversee the expansion of cloudBuy, @UK's recently launched cloud-based advanced e-procurement system, in Asia Pacific, in conjunction with @UK's partner Visa.

The Company has enjoyed strong trading in the first six months of the year, delivering growth in ecommerce marketplace and spend analysis revenue of over 100%. While the Company Formations division continued to see a small decline, overall revenues enjoyed strong growth resulting in a significant reduction in operating losses. Investment in the first half of the year to support the Visa roll-out resulted in movement into a net debt position, which has since been reversed.